Mrs. Carole A. Joynes

As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.

understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.

Some 20 years ago whilst on holiday in California my husband and I were invited to a 70th birthday party given by the birthday girl's four sons. We hit it off with one of the sons and his wife and getting talking we discovered the following: We both have two daughters and a son, Both the wives taught the same year group in our respective countries, We both live in Chesterfield; the American family from Chesterfield Missouri, and ourselves from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, U.K. We have remained friends ever since.
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:21:08 +0000Coincidence ID:4072